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Square Dance (1987)
 
Director:
Daniel Petrie |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Drama |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
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RUNNING
TIME
112 minutes |
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Producer:
Daniel Petrie |
Screenwriter (based on his novel):
Alan Hines |
Review
The young and beautiful Winona Ryder and Rob Lowe are honing their
acting skills in this slow and unremarkable coming-of-age
film directed by old-timer Donald Petrie. The film has a gentle tone
which may have been effective had the script been a little less
melodramatic and had a little more purpose. There is little to learn and
not enough emotion as Ryder runs away from her grandfather's home in
order to get to know her
estranged
mother in the city. The thematics
are too lenient to really interest. Lowe was nominated for a Golden
Globe for his heartfelt, but standardized performance as a mentally
retarded boy. It's an obvious critics favourite role, even if Lowe did
much better work prior to this one.
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